“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!” Doc of course was referring to the year 2015, when flying cars rendered roads totally useless; an artefact of that past that would only continue to exist in museums and on movie production sets.  Back to the Future is the theme of this week’s column and a mini-series that I’ll write about intermittently over the next while. Why? Because we live in a time where some of our most radical innovations take us back to an idea, product or service that we have already had. The question I’m going to be investigating…

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